" I am a galley slave to pen and ink. "

Honore de Balzac French realist novelist (1799 – 1850)

" Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed. "

I.F. Stone 1907-1989

" Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. "

John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951) US (Italian-born) portrait painter (1856 – 1925)

" The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. "

Ninon de Lenclos French courtesan (1620 – 1705)

" The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas. "

Judge John Kane, US District Court

" It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more. "

Collen McCullough

" Man is more ape than many of the apes. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. "

Sir William Osler British (Canadian-born) physician (1849 – 1919)

" Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons. "

John Lancaster Spalding

" Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow US poet (1807 – 1882)

" Respect yourself and others will respect you. "

Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

" If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground. "

Frederick Douglass 1817-1895

" Some things have to be believed to be seen. "

Ralph Hodgson, on ESP

" All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter. "

Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)

" Courage is grace under pressure. "

Ernest Hemingway US author & journalist (1899 – 1961)

" 148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man). "

Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)

" I dote on his very absence. "

William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, Act 1 scene 2 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. "

Mary S. Calderone

" It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. "

Andre Gide French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 – 1951)

" The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
Do I want one? God Forbiddie! "

Ogden Nash US humorist & poet (1902 – 1971)

" Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. "

Robert Frost US poet (1874 – 1963)

" And say my glory was I had such friends. "

William Butler Yeats Irish dramatist & poet (1865 – 1939)

" Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. "

Confucius Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

" Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. "

George Gurdjieff

" Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. "

Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point

" You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time. "

Michelangelo, Poem Fragment

" To me – old age is always ten years older than I am. "

Andre Bernard Buruch

" Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. "

Edmund Burke Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 – 1797)

" Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. "

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915 British mystery author & physician (1859 – 1930)

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